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Hi, this is Kate from MinuteEarth.
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India and China together are home to over 2 .7 billion people.
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That's as many humans as in the next 20 most populous countries combined, or in the whole other 170 countries in the world.
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Over the last 300 years, India and China each added more than a billion people to their populations — way more than any other country.
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But they have actually been growing at about the same rate as the rest of the world world.
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They have a lot more people today
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because they had a lot more people a few hundred years ago
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when the world began its period of modern and rapid population growth.
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It's like comparing a big bank account and a small one.
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If they both grow at about the same rate over many years, the big one gains a lot more money simply because it started with more.
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So the billion dollar or billion person question is why did India
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and China have so many people when they started their rapid growth?
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We can't know for sure, since so many variables factor into long -term population dynamics.
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But the two most plausible explanations are food and area.
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Having lots of fertile land and good access to fresh water makes it possible to grow lots of food, which in turn makes it possible to nourish a lot of people.
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Even today, the 10 most populated countries in the world all have a relatively large amount of farmland.
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And Asia, and in particular South and East Asia, has tons of farmland, lots of river valleys, and the ability to grow food year -round.
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Plus, domestication of plants and animals essentially started in Asia, giving populations an early leg or wing up.
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As such, Asia's been the most densely populated region of the world for a really long time.
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Area matters too.
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Countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh may be filled with farms and densely populated, But because they're smaller in area than India and China,
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they simply cannot contain as many people.
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Of course, a few other things happened in India and China in the last few thousand years.
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Some of them helped the populations grow, and some of them shrank the populations.
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But through it all, the large and fertile lands of India and China were able to sustain lots of people, such that when the era of modern population growth came around,
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they had a head start.
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Or, rather, a hundred million head start.
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This video was sponsored by the University of Minnesota, where students, faculty, and staff across all fields of study are working to solve the grand challenges facing society.
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The Minnesota Population Center is helping demographic researchers explore past and current trends in world population.
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The Global Landscapes Initiative is working to figure out how to keep feeding the world's growing population without harming the planet.
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And the IPAMS Terra Project integrates global population data with data
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on the environment to better understand how humans transform ecosystems and how ecosystems transform humans.
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Thanks, University of Minnesota.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 33 frases y 505 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:53. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 175 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 87 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
rapid adjetivo/ˈɹæp.ɪd/rápido, raudo
transform verbo/tɹænsˈfɔɹm/trasformar, transformar
ecosystem sustantivo/ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/ecosistema
fertile adjetivo/ˈfɝːtəl/fértil, feraz
compare verbo/kəmˈpɛɚ/comparar, parangonar
explanation sustantivo/ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/explicación
essentially adverbio/ɪˈsɛnʃəli/esencialmente, en esencia
solve verbo/sɒlv/resolver, solucionar
faculty sustantivo/ˈfæk.əl.ti/cuerpo docente, claustro
explore verbo/ɪkˈsploɹ/explorar
ton sustantivo/tʌn/tonelada
combine verbo/kəmˈbaɪn/combinar, juntar
variable adjetivo[ˈvæɹ.i.ə.bl̩]variable
dynamics sustantivo/dɑɪˈnæm.ɪks/dinámica
sponsor sustantivo/ˈspɒn.səː/patrocinador, patrocinadora

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
come around verbo/kʌ.məˈɹaʊnd/entrar en razón
figure out verboaveriguar, captar

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, nourish /ˈnʌɹ.ɪʃ/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: ecosystem /ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, demographic /ˌdɛm.əˈɡɹæf.ɪk/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como rapid, transform, ecosystem.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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